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CIGAR HOLDER" I I No. 378,104. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

WITNESS E5 INVENTDF\ N. PETERS. RMo-Ulhognyiwr, Yuhillgfon D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JOHN H. NOBLE, OF-LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CIGAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,104, dated February 21, 1888.

Application filed June 17, 1887. Serial No. 24l,67l.

holders for the purpose of gripping and retaining the end of the cigar. It consists of a pair of small levers hinged centrally to the outside of holder, connected and controlled at one end by a spring, and provided with sharp points or teeth projecting from the opposite ends,which .pass through orificesinto the interior of holder and bite the end of the cigar, so as to retain it in place.

In the accompanying drawings of my inveniion, Figures 1 and 2 are different side views of the holder and its attachments. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same.

A is the mouth-piece, screwed into the ferrule B, terminating in the open end 0, that receives the cigar, all these parts being of any ordinary form and material.

D D are a pair of levers hinged in or near the center, as at a, to the outer sides of tube 0, near the open end. "The enlarged ends d of these levers nearest the mouthpiece of the holder are connected by a bow-spring, E, usually formed bybeing stamped out of the metal in one piece with the levers. It isbentro'uud so as to raise the ends d of these hinged levers and to eorrespondinglydepress their opposite (No model.)

ends 01 upon the outside of the tube 0. Each of these ends d is provided with two or more sharp points or teeth, E Fig. 3, projecting therefrom at right angles and received in small orifices in tube near the open end, and passing through these orifices, so as to bite or engage with the end of the cigar and retain it in place in thetube.

' The mode of using a holder with these attachments is as follows: The ends d of the le-' vers are pressed down or in toward the sides of tube by the finger and thumb of the smoker, compressing the spring E, and thus raising the opposite ends (1 of the levers. The cigar is inserted in the open end of holder and the ends 02 of the levers are released. The spring E then depresses the ends 01 and ,the teeth or points F bite into and retain the end of the cigar, allowing cigars of any size to be smoked to the end, to remove which it is only necessary to press down again upon the ends d, which withdraws the teeth F from contact with the cigar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- In acigar-holder,apair of levers,D D,hinged I centrally at a to the exterior of said holder, the ends d d of which levers are connected and con trolled by spring E, the opposite ends d d being provided with teeth F, which project therefrom and pass through orifices in the outer end of the holder, so as to bite into and retain the end of the cigar when inserted in the holder, substantially as shown and specified.

' 7 JOHN H. NOBLE.

\Vitnesses:

RICHARD BAYLY, HENRY BEEoH. 

